The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-04
GREAT CATHEDRAL soaEME.

SAN, 4 CIopE IN DaEOla Bell,
GREAT CATHEDRAL scHEME.
The Episcopal Church to Build a MaguIa,
cent EdiaCe In New York.
New YOrk Tribune,
The building Of q great Protestant Epis'
Copal Cathedral in New York City has
long been g iayorite project with the
church authorities here and the many
liberal and charitable members Of that
prosperous and aourlshing denomination,
Mis- Catherine Lorlllard Wolfe, 1t is well
known, at one time intended to supple.
nent her largo and constant gifts to Grace
Church by q foundation Of $l,000,0O0 for
q stately new cathedral. And only an &C.
cident, one Of those unhappy slips between
design and accomplishment many good
churchmen still maintain, robbed this do
Cese Of that pIlncsly honor.
But the Cathedral project dates back
even further than Miss Wolte's proposed
gift In April, 1873, seventeen prominent
msmbeTs and clergy In the Protestant
Episcopal churches here took out q charter
from the Legislature for q cathedral cor.
poration. Some little progress was made
In the way Of subscriptions, but the hard
times just alter the panic mads any def
mite steps even toward purchasing ground
impossible. The original plan was to
take the two open blocks then fronting
Central Park, between FiftyeeVenth and
Fllsy-ninth streets and Sixth and Seventh
avenues. Blahop HorRtlo Potter was at
tho head Of the Board OF Trustees. He
advised letting the matter be quiet Tor
aGveral years. The park lots were bought
and the site was Lost,
With the death Of Bishop Horatio Pot
ter last year, only eight Of the original sew.
enteen trustees were left. Bishop Henry
y. Potter then became president OF the
board, The places Of the Others were filed
from time 10 time, and the board now
stands with the following llst Of trustees:
Bishop Potter, the Rev. Dr.. Morgan Dix,
rector Of the Trinity church; the Rev. Dr..
William r. Huntington, rector OF Grace
church; the Rev. e. W.. Donald, rector
ofthe Church Of the Ascension; the Rev.
DR.. George II. Houghton, rector OF the
Church Of the Transfguration; the Rev. /
DR.. P. K. Cody, OF Hyde Park, N. vi
Hamilton Flsh, William Waldorf Astor,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, ]. Plerpoint Nor.
gan, ]. Roosevelt, William Butler Dun.
can, Stephen P. Naah, George Maccul.
loeh Miller and Richard Auchmuty.
George MGCculloCh Miller ia the secretary
Of the board. Nine Of the trustees are
empowered to call meetingg OF any time
and act as a quorum.
The scheme has been pushed quietly for
the last three or four months and tho
trustees have made progress enough, as
they think, with subscriptions and prom.
iaeH Of support to put tho plan now before
the public. Bishop Potter's address, states |
eloquently the need forand purposes ofthe
Cathedral. II will be broadly National and
popular in character and services and O
most noble and striking ornament archi.
tecturally to the city. The Bishops ad-
dress was issued rather Unexpectedly late
last night, and so seCret has the whole
plan been kept that II will come IS q SUI.
prise to most Of tho chutchmen even In
this diocese.
BlGhop Potter in the course Of his circu.
lar says: We want (thera are many who
are strongly ~persuaded) in this great and
busy centre Of o nation'G life q sanctuary
Of . great peoples deepest faith.
That trpst In God which kept alive In our
fathers courage, heroism and rectitude
needs to-day some nobler visible express
slOn-sn expression commensurate In one
word with that material prosperity which
We have rescued vs. q people owing It's
dependence upon God and upon His blesE-
ing upon our undertakings.
Such q building would meet, moreover,
practical and urgent demands.
10y II would be the peoples church, In
which no reserved rights could be bought,
hired or held on any prsttxt whatever.
(b) II would be- tho Tighttnl centre Of
practical philSnthroptes, having fouuds-
tlons or endoWments for the mission work
Of q great city, and especially far the edu.
cation Of skilled teRChers and workers In
intelligent as we'll as emotional sympathy
with our great social prohlemg.
(c) 1t would have q pulpit In which the
best preaCherG withil Its command from
all parts Of tho land and OF various schools
Of thought would have q place and oppor-
tunlty, thus bringing the people Of q great
metropolis into touch with the strpnReat
and most helptal minds Of the age, and
Sfording presentation Of truth wider,
deeper and larger than those Of any indi-
yidnal teacher.
(d) II would be the fitting airline Of me.
MORALS Of our honoTed dead, the heroes,
leaders and helpeln whose names have
adorned the annals ot our country, and
whose monuments would wildly recall
their virtues and services.
ley And finally, It would toll TO all mon
everywhere, that "the life 10 more than
meat and the body than ralment;" that
man lie, after all, achild needing guidance,
comfort and pardon, and that be beat l!vep
here who liyea in the Inspiration OF an I'M
seen leader aud Of an immortal hope.
Tie new building will be called the
Cathedral OF 1t. John tho Divine. Few
other details except that i Nuss be built
In some conspicuous and AGttng part Of the
city have been decided upon. The etruc'
tufs will probSbly cover two ordinary
blocks and will, Of popTBe, bp many yeSie
In building. This DtYlO will be Gothic, but
no designs or plans have been dEBwn. II
carried out on the scale promised the
OhtuNuIhl VI Hts VUAA WV 0lNAb0 Wth w
abops tour times as large as 81. PattiCk's.
Tie cholr Will he bgilt int perhaps. \
alone will cover aB much ground as old
Trinity. 49,,
This whole building, II 10 estimated, will
cost 50, 100000. Several hundsed thousand
dollaf8 have already been raised by. cab
sctiptiop. The glverS prv not all Of the
prolGntant Episcopal church. D. Willis
James, q Presbyterian, for %lnstauce, has
put hIa nAmO down Tor 100000. And
other subscriptions arc looked forward 10
confidently from MRLhodiBtg, Congrege.
lionRllNs; Dhptlsls, Unltarlana, men Of oil
OfeedB and faiths who may find interest
enough In the Rfeat building simply 90 o
piece OF m~uOh.nOeded architectural art.
With q board Of trustees like the new
O~alhodrAl'saDY building pre- lot, Of pourae,
10 GuEe 10 suCCeed. Many OF tho members
Of the board have promised the Incgt llb1